Mannalargenna and "Dolly"Dalrymple Johnson neé Briggs Reference Page

The following references have been provided by Pierre Hutton and are gratefully reproduced here as a resource for those researching in this area.

Official documentation

• (i) "Posthumous Testimony to Mannalargenna"delivered by G A Robinson (the Protector) at Flinders Island, December 1835.



(Manuscript in Papers of Sir George Arthur, vol.28.Aborigines 1825-37 - Call number A2188 in Mitchell Library, Sydney).


• (ii) Petition of October 1836 from "Dolly"to Governor Arthur asking that husband Thomas, as a convicted SECOND time offender, be assigned to HER! (Refused) Archives Office of Tasmania reference: CSO 1/886/18804. Text is reproduced in State Library of Tasmania brochure listed below.



• (iii) Petition of May 1841 from "Dolly"to Government through Captain Moriarty, Port Officer, Hobart Town (an old acquaintance from earlier times in Northern Tasmania) for her mother to be allowed to come from Flinders Island and live with her in Latrobe area. (Granted). AOT ref GO 33 /39/ p. 186-188.



• (iv) Brochure of November 1983 produced by State Library of Tasmania - Mersey Region (Devonport) with title "Dolly Dalrymple - a sculpture by Peter Taylor".



The modem style wooden sculpture is in the Library. The brochure is invaluable, being summary of extensive research by the AOT on "Dolly".

Books

• (i) N J B Plomley ed. "Friendly Mission, the Tasmanian journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson", Halstead Press for Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 1966.



A remarkably detailed picture of Mannalargenna emerges from the many diary references.


• (ii) B C Mollison and Coral Everitt "The Tasmanian Aborigines and their Descendants, Parts I and 2"including "The Briggs Genealogy", Psychology Department, University of Tasmania, 1978.



• (iii) J E Calder "Some Account of the Wars, Extirpation, Habits, &c., of the Native Tribes of Tasmania", Henn and Co., Hobart 1875 (facsimile edition Cox Kay, Hobart, 1972).



• (iv) Charles Ramsay "With the Pioneers", 2^nd edition, National Trust, Latrobe, 1979.



• (v) Veda Veale "Women to remember", privately printed, St.Helens, Tasmania, 1979.



• (vi) Heather Felton "On Being Aboriginal - Book I :Worrete-Moete-Yenner and Dolly Dalrymple", Education Department, Tasmania (no date, but after 1968).



• (vii) Nancy Cato "Mister Maloga", University of Queensland Press, 1993.



(Pps. 270-271 describe Louisa, wife of John Briggs, son of Worrete-Moete-Yenner and George Briggs.)


• (viii) Julia Clark "The Aboriginal People of Tasmania ", Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1983.



• (ix) R M Fowler "The Furneaux Group Bass Strait - A History", Roebuck Book, Canberra, 1980.



(A number of references to Mannalargenna etc.)


• (x) Nic Haygarth "A View to Cradle", privately published, Canberra, 1998.



(Reference"s to business activities of "Dolly", Thomas Johnson and their son Thomas)


• (xi) National Trust of Australia (Latrobe Group), "Prints from the Past - Latrobe Photograph Collection", In - Print, Devonport, Revised edition, 1988.



• (xiii) Lyndall Ryan "The Aboriginal Tasmanians"Allen & Unwin, Australia, second edition 1996.



• (xiv)Henry Reynolds "Fate of a Free People"Penguin Books, Australia, 1995



• (xv)Charles Jeffreys "Van Dieman"s Land"J M Richardson, 1820



• (xvi)James Bonwick "The Last of the Tasmanians or The Black War of Van Diemen"s Land", Sampson Low, London, 1870 ( facsimile reproduction by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1969).



• (xvii)James Fenton "Bush Life in Tasmania fifty years ago "Hazell ,Watson &Viney, London, 1891 (facsimile reproduction, Devonport, 1964).

Newspaper reports and articles

• Launceston Examiner, 8 December 1864 -"The Late Mrs. Johnson".



• The Advocate (Burnie), 3 August 1963 -"Dolly - Dairy Plains Heroine of the "Black Wars"" by Charles Ramsay.



• Norfolk Plains Gazette (Tas.), Autumn 1995 -"The Story of Dolly Dalrymple" by Harry C Bean.



• The Mercury (Hobart), 2 March 1999 -"Wybalenna"s ghosts placated" by Margaretta Pos.



• The Age (Melbourne) 27 March 1999 -"Black at Heart" and"It"s not some club that you apply to" by Paul Heinrichs.